Berber (Arabic: بربر, romanized: barbar) is a town in the River Nile state of northern Sudan, 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Atbara, near the junction of the Atbara River and the Nile.
Berber
Arabic: بربر | |
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Town | |
  Berber Location in Sudan | |
| Coordinates: 18°01′50″N 33°59′36″E / 18.03056°N 33.99333°E | |
| Country |  Sudan |
| State | River Nile |
| Population (1989) | |
• Total | 16,650 |
Overview
editThe town was the starting-point of the old caravan route across the Nubian Desert to the Red Sea at Suakin and flagged in importance after the 1906 completion of a spur of the Sudan Military Railway to Suakin from a junction closer to the Atbara River.[1]
English explorer Samuel Baker passed through Berber on his discovery of Albert Nyanza Lake, in 1861.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 764.
- ^ Adams, W. H. D. (1885). "'In perils oft': romantic biographies illustrative of the adventurous life". United Kingdom: John Hogg. p. 250.
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